Occupy Wall Street Together. We are 99%. Poster. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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BERKELEY - NOVEMBER 15: University of California, Berkeley Professor Robert Reich speaks to students during a general assembly as part of an 'open university' strike in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement on November 15, 2011 in Berkeley, California. Teach-outs, workshops, public readings, and marches will culminate in an attempt to re-establish an Occupy Cal encampment that was shut down by police last week. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes 'Women As Livestock' Bill
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The Georgia House passed a Senate-approved bill Thursday night that criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks.' Lauren Barbato, Ms. Magazine
How the Rich Took Over Airport Security
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Standing in line at airport security with a mob of other people ... remains one of the few examples of civic equality in our increasingly oligarchic republic. Michael Lind, Salon
NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Excerpt: "Be warned. The demagogues already are on the loose. In Europe, fringe parties on the right and left are gaining ground. In America, politics has turned especially caustic and polarized. (The right is even accusing people it doesn't like of being communists.)"
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Excerpt: "Be warned. The demagogues already are on the loose. In Europe, fringe parties on the right and left are gaining ground. In America, politics has turned especially caustic and polarized. (The right is even accusing people it doesn't like of being communists.)"
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Urgent Request for UN Intervention to Stabilize Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Nuclear Fuel
Shut Tomari, Green Action
Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together on this crisis before it becomes too late. We are appealing to the United Nations to help Japan and the planet in order to prevent the irreversible consequences of a catastrophe that could affect generations to come."
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Shut Tomari, Green Action
Excerpt: "We Japanese civil organizations express our deepest concern that our government does not inform its citizens about the extent of risk of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. It is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together on this crisis before it becomes too late. We are appealing to the United Nations to help Japan and the planet in order to prevent the irreversible consequences of a catastrophe that could affect generations to come."
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The UN May Have Silenced the Afghan Public
Hakim and Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Excerpt: "While the world may accept that the US and Afghan governments have some 'state' or 'noble' considerations for not revealing the contents of the US Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement, how about the democratic consideration of involving Afghans in their own future?"
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Hakim and Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Excerpt: "While the world may accept that the US and Afghan governments have some 'state' or 'noble' considerations for not revealing the contents of the US Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement, how about the democratic consideration of involving Afghans in their own future?"
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The Student Loan Mafia Is Coming for Your Mom
Hamilton Nolan, Gawker
Intro: "America is currently embroiled in a student loan bubble and when it pops ... let's just say that I hope you can use some lacquer and a long stick to turn your college diploma into some sort of edged weapon to fight off the starving graduate student food mobs."
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Hamilton Nolan, Gawker
Intro: "America is currently embroiled in a student loan bubble and when it pops ... let's just say that I hope you can use some lacquer and a long stick to turn your college diploma into some sort of edged weapon to fight off the starving graduate student food mobs."
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Report Criticizes Oakland Police: "Overwhelming Military-Type Response"
Mary Slosson, Reuters
Intro: "Oakland police used 'an overwhelming military-type response' to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a report issued on Monday."
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Mary Slosson, Reuters
Intro: "Oakland police used 'an overwhelming military-type response' to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a report issued on Monday."
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Live Coverage: Occupy Worldwide
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The seed planted on September 17th in New York City has grown into a national and international movement. Occupy Wall Street has branched out with hundreds of groups organizing Occupy protests in their own communities. Reader Supported News highlights some of the more significant actions from around the country here. Share this page with your friends and associates and check back often for the latest developments.
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Reader Supported News Special Coverage
The seed planted on September 17th in New York City has grown into a national and international movement. Occupy Wall Street has branched out with hundreds of groups organizing Occupy protests in their own communities. Reader Supported News highlights some of the more significant actions from around the country here. Share this page with your friends and associates and check back often for the latest developments.
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Senior Citizens Continue to Bear Burden of Student Loans
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The burden of paying for college is wreaking havoc on the finances of an unexpected demographic: senior citizens.' Ylan Q. Mui, The Washington Post
Robert Reich | Whose Recovery? Many Remain in Critical Condition
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'Over a third of the gains went to 15,600 super-rich households in the top one-tenth of one percent.' Robert Reich's Blog
Police Are Using Phone Tracking As Routine Tool
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Tracking of cellphones has become a powerful and widely-used surveillance tool for local police officials, with little or no court oversight. E. Lichtblau, NY
Man Whose WMD Lies Led to Iraq War Confesses
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Curveball', the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up.' J. Owen, Independent UK
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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* * Leta O’Daniel, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 1661 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 401-0472 *Consultation with* The Ho...
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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* * *Leonard Benally, Member* *Forgotten People* P.O. Box 41 Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039 Phone: (928) 797-9468 *Consultation with *The Honorable Mr. James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the R...
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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* * Mary Lane, Vice-President Forgotten People P.O. Box 539 Tonalea (Navajo Nation), AZ 86044 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 864-6413 *Consultation with** *Th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* * Glenna Begay, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 893 Kayenta (Navajo Nation), AZ 86033 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 675-8483 Consultation with The Honorabl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoexcerpt from my chapter on Fukushima: By May 2012 public alarm about the condition of nuclear plants in Japan was rising. A report titled “Lessons From Fukushima Dai-ichi ” issued October 28, 2011 by BBT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 36.6 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:39:28 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) NNW of Enarotali, Papua, I...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* * Marlene Benally, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 1661 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 401-1777 *Consultation with* The...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago* Declaration of Norris Nez* *Hathalie (Medicine Man) & Board of Director* Forgotten People P.O. Box 371 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgotte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoYesterday my co-blogger posted the results of her magisterial investigative efforts. fern hill showed us the creepy face of the homophobic, racist and Dominionist fetus lobby that is currently attempting ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:33 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40.3 miles) East of Shahrud, Iran No Repor...
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- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Dowd extends the tour:* It’s wonderful work if you can get it! Go ahead! Just check the dateline on Maureen Dowd’s thrilling new column: DOWD (5/2/12): *Libertine on the Loose* ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Reciting a well-known script:* Who the Sam or Joe Hill is Rachel Maddow? NBC News has sold her to us in the liberal world as Our Own Rhodes Scholar. Of course, these are the sam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA property owner has ended living in the middle of a new main road after she refused to move out when developers started construction. Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two dilapidat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 12 hours agoI have a new paper coming out in the journal *Nature and Culture* titled "Post-Normal Science in a German Landscape." The paper is about energy transitions and ignorance, viewed through the lens of brown ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt's brought stories of some bizarre finds - from the reunion of a boy and his football washed up on a uninhabited island to the discovery of a Harley-Davidson. And more could be coming thick and fast in...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoFive years ago, Peter, Larry, and a few other folks established bigthink.com, an online knowledge forum, which has featured interviews with 2,000 or so people so far. A week ago, Lisa Randall recorded ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 13 hours agoComingSoon.net has released an English version of the Russian Prometheus featurette which recently aired. More footage of the Prometheus sets, interviews with cast and insight to the mysteries behind Prome...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man is on the run after shooting his eight-month pregnant daughter and killing her boyfriend and his wife. Kevin Satterfield, 55, from Florida, is wanted by police on two counts of first-degree murder ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 13 hours agoAfter reading my article Fiscal Irresponsibility 23: High Debt and Unemployment and Parliamentarism Hard Sell below, Mr. Orion Perez got ballistic and went tantrums. He posted this in my facebook wall abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHorrifying new footage was seen for the first time today of the moment a barge slammed into a tour boat drowning two college students. Dora Schwendtner, 16, and Szabolcs Prem, 20, died when a barge collid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA brutal murderer freed early from prison to kill a second time was today put back behind bars - and a judge told him: ‘You will never be released again.’ David Cook, 65, was jailed for life in 1987 for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA cruel mother beat her seven-year-old son to death before torching his body to try to hide her crime, a court was told yesterday. Sara Ege, 31, allegedly killed her son Yaseen by hitting him with a stick...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 19.7 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:14 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 1888 km (1173 miles) ENE fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBEIJING (AP) — A close friend of Chen Guangcheng says the blind legal activist agreed to stay in China only to protect his family after receiving threats that his wife would be beaten to death if he left ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoThis story makes me so angry and frustrated. I can only imagine how the parents feel! I've reached out to some activists I know who are people with disabilities for suggestions on how we can support this f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: An aerial view shows the army camp of flood effected people in Umar Kot on 27 November 2011. Aid groups warned on November 9 that vital relief efforts for five million people affected by floods i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Comparison of the median costs and the 90th percentile costs per barrel, 2002-2011. The cost of producing the marginal barrel corresponds fairly closely to the overall barrel, especially in terms...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours agoAs we reported yesterday, the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) is behind the new player in the Undebate, We Need a Law (that link is to its Myths page; go read). Also yesterday -- the day ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*.... however, when it comes to Conrad Black doing the same .... not so much.*
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: People are trapped by floodwaters on the rooftop of a house in Grantham, Australia, a township between Toowomba and Brisbane, 11 January 2011. REUTERS] [*cf.* U.S. worry about water, air polluti...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoCongressman Paul Ryan: A terrible thing to waste. Image from rrstar.com. A Republican mind is a terrible thing to waste By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2012 “The GOP has become an insurgent o...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoI'm in the middle of reading a pair of books that approach a similar subject in different ways. *What Is the What* is Dave Eggers' fictional memoir of the Sudanese refugee who he sponsored and befriended...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Part 2—Gail Collins’ alleged central point:* After killing a great deal of time, Gail Collins “finally” reached her column's “central point.” Or at least she *said* she did (see...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoMay 1, 2012 *Nuclear "Security" and Nuclear Hypocrisy * by grtv As the so-called "international community" once again meets to mouth political platitudes about stopping nuclear proliferation, many ar...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Neftali Feliz, 24, who gave the Blue Sox (and, I suppose, the Rangers) two solid years out of the bullpen. Good stuff? 1. Interesting observation from Ezra Klein: columnists produced b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe body of a very young baby has been found at a recycling plant, police have said. Staff at the Bell Waste Control site in Scunthorpe called police at about 9.30am this morning after the boy was discov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:33:29 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Port Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island, Australia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:59 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 970 km (602 miles) West of...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago#Cdnpoli - Greg Weston points out that Harper, instead of providing separate bills to alter or repeal several pieces of critical legislation has bundled them all together in a single bill which will preve...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoA reader asked: James, if you can answer without discussing the actual case involving a hang glider pilot, I would like to know how someone in his position could be charged with "Obstruction of Justice."...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoEric Cantor can't seem to get anything right this election cycle (other than knowing with great certainty that Steve Israel will never allow the DCCC to fund a campaign against him). He may have been forc...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoOn this, the first anniversary of Harperland, the *Globe and Mail *opines: On most of the issues that matter, on the economy, on reining in public spending, on addressing the long-term structural challe...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*More commentary on the Ho Zone ~American Zombie* *The NFL’s Blind Just(us) ~Jason Calbos* *Judge grants River Birch exec's request for hearing on motion to dismiss fraud charges* *House committee approv...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show"* “One cannot help but be moved to tears by this amazing young man; Sung-bong Choi. When Sung-bong decided to sing on the Talent Show "Korea's Got Talent" he had n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:37:07 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 m...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 16 hours agoAt *The New Republic*, "Making the Grade" poses this about the difference between college professors (notice that term "professor," as in "one who professes") and K-12 teachers: "The vast majority of stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMore than 32 Yangtze finless porpoises have been found dead in the Dongting and Poyang lakes in China in the last two months, leading wildlife experts to worry whether the rare animals are being pushed cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA SHOCKED farmer says he believes a vendetta is being waged against his family after three of his cattle died in horrific circumstances. Paul Weaving discovered one bullock had been killed by a hammer blow...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours agoThe Zionist wars of aggression being played out around the globe are a danger to us all. The latest propaganda by the Jewish President of the USA, Barry 'Obama' Dunham seeks to dæmonise Pakistan and to s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 1.3 km (0.8 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:43:12 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (37 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWUHAN, May 2 (Bernama) -- More than 300 tourists were evacuated after a landslide hit a forest resort in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. The landslide happened at 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCORPUS CHRISTI - Three people sent to the hospital, including one police officer, after they were attacked by bees this afternoon at a house on Pinewood Drive, near airline. Our cameras were rolling as Ve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 37.1 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:13:37 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (70 miles) Southwest of Tap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - While its European partners agonize about recession, austerity and rising unemployment, Germany is shifting its attention to a very different, and yet familiar, source of angst - inflation. D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan have submitted a list of about 40 North Korean companies to the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee for possible blacklisting d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Euro zone factories sank further into decline last month but manufacturers in Asia upped their tempo to meet growing demand from the United States and China, exposing a widening gulf between E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Egypt's army said on Wednesday it was deploying extra troops to control clashes that erupted at a protest near the Defence Ministry in Cairo, where medical and security sources said the death ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoImage: The poorly armed rebels still manage to build bombs that can blow a whole building apart injuring over 100 people. (Reuters) - A rebel ambush in northern Syria killed 15 security force members on W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - A court in Mannheim ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility's patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday "of his own volition" after six days, the Foreign Ministry said, and a senior U.S. official said he planned to s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- Thousands of people trying to return to South Sudan from Sudan have been stranded for months at the Kosti way station and are running out of "means of support," a United Nations official said Tue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWashington (CNN) -- Three of the 12 Secret Service agents involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal refused to cooperate with authorities and submit to a polygraph test, according to House Homeland S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoWe are told that we are in a state of drought due to the reduced rainfall over the last two winters but are there other factors that could affect the shortage of water. Shortage of water is a supply issue,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has redeemed the honor of six senior state officials who had been purged under the late Kim Jong Il administration, it has been learned. Sources close to the leadership of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOAKLAND, Calif. – Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures. Police fired tear gas to disperse marchers in Oakland, Calif. And black-clad demonstrato...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Assailants targeted protesters demonstrating against the barring of a presidential candidate in Cairo early Wednesday, killing six and leaving scores hurt, the health ministry said. At least 100...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 25.4 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:31 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 164 km (102 miles) NNE fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA first-time mother was found guilty of repeatedly stabbing her newborn baby to death and hiding the body in a bedroom closet, a court heard today. Yoselin Torres Tovar, 20, was charged with second-degree...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 18 hours agoWhen I was a freshman in college, the thing that was more difficult than anything else to me was trying to figure out how to correctly cite sources in research papers. I would spend hours looking at the ML...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA New York man has been convicted of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 - a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about Al-Q...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJust two months after conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart died of a sudden heart attack, a Los Angeles coroner has died of suspicious circumstances. Sources told the Los Angeles Times that Michael Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThousands of Occupy Wall Street activists have clashed with police after swarming banks and businesses in New York as part of the movement's massive May Day protests across the country. In a deliberat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:22:29 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAnti-capitalist demonstrators tonight moved into Paternoster Square, home to the London Stock Exchange, in what they said marked a small victory - even if they were kicked out within a few hours. As May ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA former detective was tonight charged with murder for allegedly stabbing his hairdresser wife to death in her salon. Natalie Esack, 33, is thought to have left her husband of eight years Ivan Esack, 38,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA heroin addict won £3,000 in compensation after he complained he was mistreated in prison - and then blew it all on drugs when he was released. The Government awarded the payout to Gerard George McBlain,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn a bloody battle between two warring neighbours in Australia today, one man's arm was almost severed with a chain saw, while another had a finger chopped off with a Samurai sword. Surgeons were later t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least six people have been killed in an early morning suicide attack in the Afghan capital, hours after a surprise visit to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama, government officials said. The Taliba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA drunken secretary has admitted hurling racist abuse at fellow passengers on the London Underground after a video of her appeared on the internet. Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, directed a drunken, expletive-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe coroner presiding over the inquest into the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams has said there is insufficient evidence to consider a verdict of unlawful killing. Sky reporter Mark Stone, at the inquest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPresident Obama recently touted algae as a potential source of energy, and now the Environmental Protection Agency has invested in converting spinach into an energy source. The EPA awarded a $90,000 gran...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEurope (minus Germany) looks more like post-bubble Japan each month. The long-feared credit crunch has mutated instead into a collapse in DEMAND for loans. Households and firms are comatose, or scared sti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFormer U.S. nuke envoy says North is relic of China’s past, not asset for its future North Korea’s rocket launch in violation of a breakthrough deal in February with the U.S. is an indication of “deeper ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOne of the little political battles going on in the background is over the UK's promise to spend 0.7 per cent of our shrinking GDP on overseas development aid. The truth is that it doesn't really matter w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNAIL POLISH BRANDS WITH ONE OR MORE 'TOXIC TRIO' INGREDIENTS - Station - Dare to Wear - Chelsea - Golden Girl - Cacie - New York Summer - High Gloss Mislabelled nail products have the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWe toss out 7 pounds of trash a day each, spending billions to manage it Each week, we push our trash to the curb, and it seemingly disappears. But where does it all go: the spent cartons of milk, the comp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Bali, in Indonesia, a country where handicapped children are often treated very badly.* - Website for this image *In parts of Indonesia, children with deformities are said to be occupied by 'bad' spirit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago3D altitude maps captured by satellites show glaciers in part of the greater Himalaya range are bucking the global trend of continued ice loss. The glaciers flowing between the towering peaks of the Karako...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoScientists from the United States Geological Survey have cautiously weighed in on a subject that has sparked public concern in some parts of the country: spates of small earthquakes in oil- and gas-produci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs ESA's Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite's first observations followi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBOZEMAN, Mont. – Locked in frozen vaults on Antarctica and Greenland, a lost world of ancient creatures awaits another chance at life. Like a time-capsule from the distant past, the polar ice sheets offe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoVIENNA, W.Va. -- A team of experts revealed Monday that it has found a "probable link" between C8 and human cancers, rebuffing DuPont Co.'s longstanding contention that exposure to the chemical is harmless...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA study of pregnant women and their children in New York City has provided clinical evidence that links environmental pollution with childhood obesity. The most up-to-date statistics show that 17 per cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA much-used herbicide, which for years has helped farmers throughout the United States increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more and use more chemicals to control t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChicken is the top-selling meat in the United States. The average American eats 84 pounds a year, more chicken than beef or pork. Sorry red meat, chicken is what's for dinner. And now the USDA is proposin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn an executive summary report released at this year’s Annual Science/AAAS meeting (Feb, 2012, Vancouver, B.C.), the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) lays out five of the primary “methods of abuse” uti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChinese activist Cheng Guangcheng has left the US Embassy and is headed to a hospital in Beijing where he is to be reunited with his family, according to Sky sources. His stay at the embassy in Beijing h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA 36-year-old man has been charged with the murders of Colin Dunford and Julie Davison, Cleveland police have said. James Allen is also accused of rape, false imprisonment, assault and witness intimidati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoChina has demanded that the US apologises for sheltering blind activist Cheng Guangcheng in its embassy in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said. Chen, who angered Chinese authorities by exposing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:23 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Foça, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:40:02 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) WNW of Izmir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 36 km (22.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:13:17 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) Southwest of Tapach...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 20 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kapulauan Sangihe, Indonesia at a depth of 134.1 km (83.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:23:48 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 232 km (144 miles) NNE of Man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:14:03 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 356 km (221 miles) SSW from NUKU'...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoFurther to yesterday's post, have a look at this single graph from New Scientist magazine... It makes the same point rtaher neatly I think. Once again when will the BBC show such a graph to put 'man made ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoALARUMS ALARUMS ALARUMS Oliver North, you remember that guy, right? Central to the Congressional investigation of the IRAN/CONTRA affair, where American arms were sold to Iran during an already-existing a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoSource: http://organichealthadviser.com/archives/polysorbate-80-in-swine-flu-vaccines-infertility-in-humans *Is ACLU Aware? Sebelius, HHS Censor Vaccine Concerns, Produce ‘Fertility Impairing Vaccine’*...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoThe UK Met Office's three month weather outlook issued on 23 March ran thus (*my emphasis*): 'The forecast presented here is for April and the average of the April-May-June period for the United Kingdom a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoFor more info and how you can help visit: http://www.survivingjapanmovie.com/ Inside story of the 2011 Japan Tsunami and Fukushima disaster. A critical look at how the authorities handled the nuclear cri...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe continue to smash neutrons together at high energy and derive ever more energetic results. Like the transuranic atoms, the results are theoretically pleasing, but otherwise difficult to get...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis item is written by a journalist whose father is Cree. As an aside, I suspect that the Cree did best of all native peoples in the Americas in terms of generally surviving the impact of the Eu...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is a mechanical assist but it draws fluids of the brain allowing for a superior outcome when brain injury has occurred. This may allow a significant amount of heart attack caused brain injury...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoMost likely the object was acquired by the US government by the payment of a decent honorarium and a signature on the appropriate document outlining the Official Secrets act turning all the cust...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*The short version of the article is "Probably Yes". Here is the extended version:* Lots of blogs and media have discussed a paper in *Nature Climate Change*that has demonstrated a huge warming effect of t...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoContemplating the thought of three more years of Stephen Harper. Below: Mr. Harper himself. Tory times, as the old saying goes, are terrible times. So it should surprise no one that as we mark the first ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoMay 1, 2012 In the third episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with Tunisia's first post-revolution leader Moncef Marzouki about the West's double standards in protecting human rights. He ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA group of more than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries has called for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more research can be completed on waters that were once covered by ice year-ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn 2006, when beekeepers began to report that their hives were suffering from a mysterious affliction, a wide variety of theories were offered to explain what was going on. The bees were suffering from ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours agoUN's silence over Syrian opposition terrorism lays bare "international law's" illegitimacy. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 2, 2012* - Since 2011, reports of arsonists and gunmen amongst Syria's opposition hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Retired police officer Ed Hashbarger is watching in anger as drillers converge on his part of eastern Ohio, at times gaining access to coveted oil and gas deposits through a state la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoScientists shocked to find greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than CO2 bubbling from deep ocean. A new source of methane – a greenhouse gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide – has been identi...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago*The UK does not so far have extensive 4G coverage, and the iPad will be mismatched with it while it does. *The opinion of the regulator is that had received dozens of complaints in relation to the matte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLast year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoScotland would be unlikely to have a AAA credit rating if it were independent of the rest of the United Kingdom, MPs have been told. Although the precise division of UK assets and liabilities has not yet ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNaomi Gummer, a public policy analyst at the internet giant, said it was a "myth" that laws can prevent children from viewing explicit material, because the pace of technological development would render l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Government borrowed £2bn more than expected in March but just about managed to meet its full-year target because of downward revisions to previous months. Britain’s public finances deteriorated furth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe drug wars dominate the discussion in Mexico and in many border states in America as well. There have been nearly 50,000 drug-related killings in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón began his six-y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The real estate market was on fire. Buyers were snapping up sparkling new condos faster than developers could build them. Investors were grabbing two, three, four apartments each, ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoI have seen massive geysers of what look like smoke or steam released from the Fukushima plant on the webcam over the last 2 days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Tensions between China and other nations bordering the South China Sea are escalating, with the oil and gas resources that lie beneath those waters playing a central role. Conserva...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - Aging baby boomers got some jolting news on Monday when the U.S. government said the Social Security retirement program is on track to go bankrupt three years earlier than expected if reforms ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTeachers across Canada are having their reputations ruined as increasing numbers get falsely accused of abusing their students, or acting inappropriately with them, experts say. "We are getting more and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoArthritis is widely misunderstood by the public as an ailment that only affects older people, but there is a growing risk that those in their 20s and 30s will suffer from it as well. This is especially t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDespite new leadership, the country is still being run based on principles set out by Kim Jong-Il and his father. Tokyo, Japan - At 7:39 am on April 13, North Korea fired a missile (which it called a sate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Islamist movements that sided with Egypt's SCAF have turned full circle and flocked to Tahrir Square in protests. Cairo, Egypt - In late December, a young female protester took a break from the havoc ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAmal al-Malki, a Qatari author, says the Arab Spring has failed women in their struggle for equality. Is the Arab Spring a movement leading to more freedom and equal rights? Not for women, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNorth Korea issued a brazen threat against South Korea on Monday, warning that it would take "special actions" that will "start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors" -- shorthand f...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 23 hours ago*At night, the snails come out by the thousand.* The Ma Administration, under fire for the sensible move of raising electricity prices but doing it all in one fell swoop, finally bowed to sanity yesterd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNorth Koreans feel new leader Kim Jong-un is getting above his station by having himself appointed first secretary of the Workers Party by the country's rubber-stamp parliament earlier this month, a South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe interest burden on household loans has reached a point where it can seriously threaten private consumption, the Bank of Korea said Sunday. The central bank said the proportion of loan interest to hous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAll things considered, India acted prudently in preserving its oil imports from Iran. Reports suggest that the European Union [EU] may not, after all, implement in July its oil embargo against Iran. The ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago*Scientists increasing heritably modified wheat are asking campaigners not to damage their investigational plots, other than come in for a chat instead.* They argue that genes as of the customized strain ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSuppose you were alive back in 1945 and were told about all the new technology that would be invented between then and now: the computers and internet, mobile phones and other consumer electronics, faster...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoJANESVILLE — At its best, a recent surge in local foreclosure activity will add to the backlog of distressed properties depressing the real estate market. At its worst, the record level of activity could...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe U.S. military has stockpiled $800 million worth of weapons in Israel and the amount is growing, according to a U.S. Congressional report and reported by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu of the Israeli media network...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNetherlands-based freelance editor and filmmaker Sander van den Berg created this beautiful video of Saturn by piecing together raw images from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWe chase "fast culture" at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us, says Will Self. We are living in a risk-averse culture - there's no doubt about that. But the risk that people seem ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 35.9 km (22.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:52:43 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) Southwest of Tapachu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:41:45 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 345 km (214 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt's often been reported that North Koreans are a few inches shorter than their counterparts south of the border. Is that true? North Korea's recent failure to launch a long-range rocket was embarrassing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoActivists in Mumbai have launched a campaign to demand better public toilet facilities for women. Currently, women have to pay to use public toilets while men can use the services for free. The campaign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs anybody really surprised that nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home? Not really. The India Human Development report has been saying this for a while. The situation is worse ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLet’s get real, script kiddies: It's time to stop defacing websites and start going after the good stuff. Over the last few weeks, the hacker collective Anonymous has shifted its attention to China. On M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe sections of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Intrepid open to the public are painstakingly restored and lovingly maintained. But restoration is expensive, and vast portions of the ship remain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 52.6 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:06:33 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 473 km (294 miles) SSW from R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShe may be out of the presidential race herself but French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has used her political power to influence the outcome. She is refusing to endorse either remaining candidate and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoLeonard Cohen, "Anthem" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssZ32ahjGM
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDCCC Chair and "ex"-Blue Dog Steve Israel doesn't care if a candidate is conservative or liberal, just as long as he or she is a "Democrat." It doesn't matter if the candidate is virulently anti-Choice, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBarack Obama has told the US that a decade under "the dark cloud of war" is almost over and that his administration is on course to destroy Al Qaeda. The US President told the American people in a prime...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*The CIA: Torture Is Our Trade.* "The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. *I can't say that e...
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